entropicdrift
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on The nursery rhyme "monkeys jumping on the bed" gives children the impression that you can just call your family doctor who will pick up immediately. 7 hours ago:
Doctors used to and still do make house calls. You just have to be wealthy
- Comment on Homophobia implies the existence of jumpscare Yaoi/Yuri 2 days ago:
Exactly. “Alternate timeline fantasy with some mythology vibes”, something like that.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 days ago:
What’s different is that most people will see it as “tech stuff” and mentally file it in a drawer with spare extension cords and adapters. They don’t care to deeply study or catalog things.
People writ-large don’t care about proper genre labels either, they just kinda pick a vibe and guess off of it. Look at all the -core suffixed aesthetic names that cropped up in the last decade.
- Comment on Homophobia implies the existence of jumpscare Yaoi/Yuri 2 days ago:
I love the hell out of that anime but it’s difficult to recommend to people because explaining the setting so it doesn’t make people uncomfortable would spoil several of the plot twists.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 days ago:
Agreed. But most people have neither the time nor capacity to track all of these specifics, so popular discussions of AI-related technologies inevitably break down into a mud pit of people talking past each other about various different topics.
Which, if you think about it, is true of most public discussions about any complex topic. It almost invariably revolves into a miscommunication or a discussion about semantics.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 days ago:
It’s also the other way around. What was called AI in the past is now called bots. Simple algorithms that approximate the appearance of intelligence like even the earliest chess engines, for instance, were also called AI.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 3 days ago:
The 2024 democratic primary was effectively nonexistent because Biden was running for re-election. Don’t be ridiculous.
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 5 days ago:
As a 90’s kid, I think we’re roughly on-par.
I grew up with Windows (95, then 98), DOS, MacOS 8, 9, and X, and used several Apple II computers at school. I was able to use dial-up on my own by like 7?
Built my first custom gaming PC at 12 or maybe 13. It ran XP, which needed a bit of tweaking to run some of my old DOS games.
Man, I do not miss dealing with Sound Blaster drivers.
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 1 week ago:
You mean the Nazi who owns it and was messing with its settings for months before it did that? That same Nazi?
- Comment on Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” 1 week ago:
How did this get past the regulations?
It’s almost like DOGE specifically dismantled the parts of the government that were investigating and attempting to regulate Musk’s companies.
- Comment on I'm hotmail 1 week ago:
Studded leather ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on Some people could sound angrier when complaining, new study finds 1 week ago:
More like an observation than anything. The study showed that people from Quebec sound angrier when complaining, whereas people from France sound sadder.
- Comment on Here’s why there are so few new cars for under $30,000 1 week ago:
Used Electric cars are cheap, though. Everyone sees the battery tech advancing fast, so EVs depreciate quickly since the battery is a huge chunk of the cost.
- Comment on Some people talk about what they've seen but most talk about what they've heard. It sounds the same but it's a big difference. 1 week ago:
Come to Pennsylvania, we have tons of alleged ghost sightings. I’ve met several people who claim to have seen ghosts.
- Comment on Review — Hallmark's 2025 Star Trek: Lower Decks Ornaments 2 weeks ago:
And a movie
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 3 weeks ago:
I think the best we can do is post on the Unix shell bboard system and request an update to the Lemmy version.
- Comment on is lemmy.sdf.org running poorly for anyone else? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s been slow. Maybe we can get them to update the Lemmy version while they’re at it. Lots of performance improvements in newer versions
- Comment on How big is your media library? 3 weeks ago:
1,028 movies
517 shows (20,702 episodes)
- Comment on "Tuesday" which sounds like "twos-day" is day number 2 in the week whether you one-index and start your week on Monday *or* zero-index and start your week on Sunday. 3 weeks ago:
It’s from Tyr, the Norse god. Originally closer to Tyr’s day, hence the odd spelling relative to the pronunciation.
Likewise we have (W)Odin’s Day, Thor’s Day, Frida’s Day, and Saturn-Day. Of course there’s also the Sun’s day and the Moon’s day.
- Comment on Q anon was a psyop. 3 weeks ago:
The issue with the line of thinking you’re espousing is that without evidence, you’re suggesting a more complicated cause than simple chance.
Like yes, it is possible that somebody or some group lined all of these things up in advance, but it’s also entirely possible that there’s a ton of noise out there on the internet and that those with nefarious interests just signal boost the noise that benefits them.
Think of all the millions of random schizo-posters out there. You just pick whichever makes the right sounds and boost them. No need to invent the crazy when there’s crazy on tap.
- Comment on goodbye plex 4 weeks ago:
This. I use symfonium for my audiobooks. Great app.
- Comment on Chocolate chip is a great cookie, but only if it's melty. If it's crunchy, it's just an average cookie. 4 weeks ago:
Right, that’s their point. Chocolate chip cookies can be made to be chewy when cold instead of melted, in which case they’re still much better than crunchy chocolate chip cookies.
- Comment on Supreme Court (SCOTUS) upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law 4 weeks ago:
Books at book stores don’t generally have graphic violence and gore.
…seriously? Go read The Boys or Chainsaw Man or Gantz
- Comment on AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You 5 weeks ago:
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
- Comment on Maybe the reason why no one agrees with me is that everyone has been infected by brain slugs. 1 month ago:
You spelled it wrong but pronounced it right FWIW. I watched the show and read more than a dozen of the books growing up.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 month ago:
This has to be my favorite thing about Jeff Geerling vs other YouTube channels, he’ll make an accompanying blog post to go with each of his main channel videos that is effectively an annotated text version of the video with appropriately embedded images and links.
- Comment on 'Fortnite' Lobbies Can Now Have Up to 92% Bots - Players Are Furious Over Supposed OG Season 3 Update 1 month ago:
OP’s post is about fortnite, the top commenter of this comment chain added on a link about Twitter. Both are about a supposedly popular thing being overwhelmingly just full of bots. What’s not to get?
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
I understood their point. My point is that it was a one line throwaway gag on The Simpsons. Not necessarily a commentary on real world police hiring practices so much as a joke about both the police in that show and Homer.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
Considering how dumb the police chief is on that show, I think it was an intentional joke
- Comment on The Game, is just Roko's Basilisk for kids. 1 month ago:
Didn’t work on me. You can’t play a game you never consented to